Present Simple personalised board game Sports/ Exercise Health

Friends

Family

Cook

Housework

Clothes/ Fashion Charity

Shopping

Language learning

Travel

Instructions Choose something to be a counter for each person in your group, for example different erasers or coins. Place all of them on the START square. Decide who will go first. People must make true statements about other people in their group (or those people’s friends, family etc.) as described in the square that they are on or using the words that are written in that square. How many true sentences they can make without saying something wrong will decide how many spaces they can move around the board. If they say something which isn’t true or if they reach six true statements, they have to stop speaking and can move the number of squares of the number of true statements that they said before that. For example: A: “You brush your teeth in the morning.” B: “That’s true.” A: “And you look at the BBC website in the morning.” C: “That’s right!” A: “And I think you use floss in the morning.” C: “No, that’s not true. I never use floss. You can move two squares. Now it’s my turn.”

START In the morning Afternoon habits In the evening

On holiday

On Sundays

At lunchtime/ For lunch Housework

Money

Play then passes to the next person. Green habits

The person who has gone furthest around the board when the game stops is the winner.

TV

Drink

Different groups can go clockwise or anticlockwise around the board, so that you aren’t all speaking about the same topic at the same time.

Music

Eat

Internet

Homework

At work

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2014

With friends/ family